Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to meeting 111 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. We will be continuing with our Arctic sovereignty study today. We have two sets of esteemed witnesses testifying before us.
Our first witness is Jessica Shadian, who is chief executive officer and founder of Arctic 360 and a distinguished senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto.
We also have Whitney Lackenbauer, who is Canada research chair in the study of the Canadian north and professor at the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University.
Welcome. We will have each of you speak for around eight minutes, then we'll open it up to the floor, because I know my colleagues will have lots of questions for you.
Ms. Shadian, we will begin with you.